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Newspaper
Bath Independent
Location
Bath, Maine, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1915
Page
4
The piece blends a Candlemas poem by Charles D. Clarke with social items from Bath and surrounding towns. It highlights engagements, club events, theatre outings, concerts, church entertainments, and local visits, noting school and church activities and community figures shaping Bath society.
Dr. W. E. Rowe and City Clerk A. J. Grassey died Thursday in Augusta. Their deaths prompt municipal officials to note the loss of two prominent local figures and longtime public servants.
Mrs J Houghton McLellan visits Boston while George E Hughes dies in Portland. George T Cuttin also dies in Portland. Annie Rideout visits Charles S Brown. Frank W Perkins comes from Boston for a Sunday visit. Mr and Mrs John J Desmond depart for Boston. Emilio de Gogorza leaves for Grand Rapids to sing. Virginia Shaw visits Ruth Ward in Brunswick. A W Flint of Portland and his wife stay over weekend. Mr Flint works in a Rankin drug store chain and was formerly in Bath.
William Otis Kimball arrived Tuesday from Boston on business and stayed with Major William R. Kimball on High Street. John E. Drury of Lowell attended his aunt Miss Jane Shepard's funeral in Bath. Drury, a longtime Lowell plumber, has visited Bath since boyhood.
Mr and Mrs Charles Hathaway of Cambridge Massachusetts are vacationing in Florida and Bermuda. Mrs Hathaway formerly Emma Small of this city spent time in Florida with the couple.
At the February meeting of the Col. Dummer Sewall chapter D A R the members voted to manage an event honoring Washington's Birthday. The hospitality committee chaired by Mrs. Harry C Webber will arrange an appropriate program for the occasion.
The Fortnightly minstrels on Wednesday night will draw a large crowd to Music Hall. The chorus is a winner, they say, and there are clever end ladies who will keep the audience in a gale of laughter.
The Cosmopolitan Club met on Wednesday with reports from the philanthropic committee noting a January card party added twenty dollars to the treasury. They discussed purchasing a Victrola for the clubhouse and plans for a permanent home, appointing a committee to survey property and naming officers for the March election.
The Grace Church Men’s Club organizes an event on Thursday evening February 11 with Prof. Frank D. Tubbs delivering The European War and a post talk discussion featuring Henry G. Beyer of Portland and Tjient. Mangold, plus others on both sides. Refreshments will be served and members may bring two guests. Also notes Mr. Fisher buys 50 Pearl St residence and Mr. Lord’s furlough home on Weeks St with Bath Maine praised as unmatched.
A strong company rehearses all week for A Virginia Courtship with Mrs Edward W Hyde among the cast and welcomed by the footlights again. Mrs George and Mrs Roscoe McFadden hosted the Ladies Rift at Winter Street Church yesterday. Mrs W S Newell gave an auction party with Miss Blanche Metcalfe winning first prize and Miss Nellie Turner the silver frame consolation. Bath hostess Mrs Edmund P Briggs entertained this week. Miss Emily Dodge, a Brunswick school teacher, weekend guest of Mrs Maurice Snow. Bath Teachers Club met at Assembly Hall last evening.
Mr and Mrs John Holmes Hyde return to Bath Wednesday night from their honeymoon and will stay at Elmhurst until their new High Street home is ready for occupancy.
The funeral of Edwin L. Pilsbury, a longtime figure in business and politics, was held at First Universalist Church Charlestown. Interment followed at Woodlawn cemetery. Senator Pilsbury married Louise Plummer of Bath. they had two daughters Edna and Louise.
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